I have a soft spot in my heart for typography. We can "feel the difference when sommething is set in one typeface," rather an another, says says Ina Saltz, a professor in Electronic Design and Multimedia at City College NYC. "There's a visual distinction that sends a visual message." Saltz was one of more than a dozen interviews that I spent more than a month on (just prior to starting this blog), for a story exploring the rising trend of typographical/word tattoos. I interviewed several "words" in Shellly Jackson's Skin project, a typeface designer in Las Vegas whose whole torso is covered in Latin tattoos in antique typefaces, Saltz, editor of Body Type, the first photographic book of word/typographic tattoos, among others.
So I was thrilled to read
Festival organizers had to turn away more than 150 people at the SXSW premiere. I think that's going to be the precident as the film begins touring the international film fest circut. It's coming to New York for a screening at the New School on April 6, and guess what? Yep, sold out.